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Description: Tired of beating through multiple Top 8's without a PTQ win, Berto has finally dropped his Heroes of Newerth habit to start grinding and testing. Sadly, he has a man-crush on Pili-Pala so probably won't win one this season...

Posts by Roberto Castro-Mahoney (pRoberto)

Berto’s Beats – Draft Archetypes in Innistrad Draft: Part Deux

Posted on January 10, 2012 | 6 Comments
Hello again readers and gluttons for Magic power! As we started in Part I, this article deals with the ins and outs of each archetype in Innistrad Limited. First, we...
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Berto’s Beats – Approaching the Archetypes of Innistrad Draft

Posted on December 15, 2011 | 41 Comments
In this season of giving, and in this air of pleasantry and decoration and frivolity, you will all now be blessed with all the knowledge to stomp noobs in your...
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Berto’s Beats – Innistrad Under the Microscope Part II

Posted on November 15, 2011 | 5 Comments
Hopefully everyone enjoyed the first in-depth look at Innistrad sealed. We left off with the Winners and Losers of the format, as well as having identified the common tendencies...
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Berto’s Beats: Delving into the Darkness of Innistrad Sealed

Posted on November 1, 2011 | 7 Comments
Berto’s Beats Delving into the Darkness of Innistrad Sealed Happy Halloween! Welcome back readers! As is customary, I take a break during Magic summers because Core sets suck dick. Drafting...
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Berto’s Beats – Drafting Red Infect

Posted on June 27, 2011 | 25 Comments
Berto’s Beats – Drafting Red Infect Ogres and Spiders and Cystbearers and …Pigs, O My! As a format matures we all start to see different draft “archetypes” arise. From the...
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Berto’s Beats – Invisible Artifacts

Posted on June 21, 2011 | 21 Comments
New Phyrexia is firmly embedded into block drafts, and thank goodness for it. I was so sick of Blightwidows and Cystbearers and Plague Stingers. Those cards still exist but thankfully...
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The Sting – A Universal Guide to Trading Cards

Posted on March 23, 2011 | 9 Comments
Everyone knows Oswald went down after trading Jack Ruby an Akromas Memorial for his Foil Tarmogoyf “Hey, you got some trades?” I probably get asked this question 3-8 times per...
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Berto’s Beats | Mirrodin Besieged Draft Report #1

Posted on March 8, 2011 | 13 Comments
I’ve never been a huge fan of MTGO, but recently my housemate bought me in to one of the MBS Release Events and I went 4-0. From there I decided...
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Berto’s Beats | Mirrodin Besieged Draft Archetypes

Posted on February 17, 2011 | 5 Comments
Draft Archetypes in Mirrodin Besieged by Roberto Castro-Mahoney (Today is the prerelease of Mirrodin Besieged on Magic the Gathering Online. Take Berto’s advice and find the deck that will take...
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Berto’s Beats | Emperors in New Phyrexia

Posted on February 4, 2011 | 3 Comments
Emperors in New Phyrexia By Roberto Castro-Mahoney Have you ever had a EUREKA! moment? If you haven’t had the pleasure, let me tell you, they’re fantastic. This past weekend I...
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